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 52 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 12. 1917. impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approva of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary abor for the §)°;l%§*i§§,‘§}‘$;m,S pur ose. For the fiscal year ending June thirtreth, nineteen hundred mrservmes. andp eighteen, whenever the rce machines, steam laundr·1es, and electric plants shall not come in competition with pr1vate entgprprise for sale to the public, and in the opinion of the Secretary of ar rt becomes necessary to the economical use and administration of such ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants as have been or may hereafter be established in pursuance of aw, surplus 1ce may be disposed of, laundry work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric liglht and power may be sold on such terms and in accordance wit such regulations as may be US° °’ P’°°°°dS· rescribed by the Secretary of War: Provided, That the funds received fiom such sales and in payment for such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice, laundry, and electric plants, and the sales and expenditures herein provided for shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law, and any sums remaining after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed shall be de osited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from wiiich the cost of operation of such plant is paid. I“°"*°¤“'°*P°”°°°· INCIDENTAL nxrruvsms, Quanrnmmsrnn Conrs: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the OfIicers’ Reserve Corps, when E"“‘d“*Y P“Y·°*°· ordered to active duty; extra ay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the 5uartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten da ; sis additional school-teachers during the school term at post scliiirols, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of genera iglrisoners at posts designated biy the War De- P _ gartment for the con ement of general prisoners, an for the United Drrgzigiiriary bar- tates disciplinary barracks ard: Provided, That hereafter the '°·°’“ g¤°*d·°*°· extra-duty pay to the Unitedu States disciplinary barracks guard shall be at the following rates per day: Battalion sergeants major, first sergeants, mess sergeants, supply sergeants, and sergeants, 35 cents; corporals, 30 cents; cooks and mechanics, privates first class, giivatcs, and buglers, 20 cents; of extra-duty pa at rates to be ed by the Secretar? of War for mess stewards andy cooks at recruit depots, who are gra uates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; authorized office furniture, authorized issues of towels; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officer·s’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spim, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmeu, and organist or the United States disci linary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruitin ; for the ap relibnsion, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escapedp military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $5 to each dis— Hmeupmdmm honorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement ' under court-martial sentence invol dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures r uired lor the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of F igd Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of